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Snickers and Budweiser Most Successful At Driving Internet Traffic on Day Following Super Bowl XLI

iFilm and AOL Sports Surge in Post Game Ad-Viewing Activity

 

NEW YORK, NY – February 7, 2007 – Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, announced that the Super Bowl XLI advertiser websites with the largest increases in market share of visits on the Monday following the game (February 5, 2007) were Snickers.com, up 1478 percent versus the previous Monday, and BudLight.com, up 656 percent versus the previous Monday (January 29, 2007). Anheuser-Busch's other Budweiser-branded sites, Budweiser.com and Bud.tv, also more than doubled in market share of visits in the same period. Other top moving advertiser websites in that period were Revlon.com, up 165 percent, and SalesGenie.com, up 156 percent.

Internet-based only businesses have long experimented with Super Bowl advertising to varying degrees of success. In 2007, Salesgenie.com and GoDaddy.com were the dot-com advertisers that showed the largest increases in market share of visits on February 5, 2007 versus January 29, 2007, at 156 percent and 75 percent respectively.

Americans also went online to watch the ads, as increased traffic levels were seen on the Monday following the game at websites that hosted the Super Bowl commercials. While the market share of visits to YouTube was only up 12 percent on February 5, 2007 versus January 29, 2007, it was the 12th most visited Internet domain in the US overall. iFilm and AOL Sports showed market share increases of 328 percent and 158 percent respectively for the same period.

“Ads that create buzz and are worthy of multiple viewings will drive more value into the Super Bowl advertising investment,” said LeeAnn Prescott, research director at Hitwise. “Food and Beverage manufacturers are embracing the web to a greater degree and should fully integrate Internet marketing into offline advertising efforts in order to maximize value."

Super Bowl Advertiser Websites Ranked By Daily Market Share of US Internet Visits

Advertiser

Website

Percent Market Share Feb 4, 2007

Percent Market Share Feb 5, 2007

Percent Change Feb 5 vs Feb 4

Percent Change Feb 5 vs Jan 29

Career Builder

www.careerbuilder.com

0.114

0.1577

38.33%

3.07%

Blockbuster

www.blockbuster.com

0.04079

0.04694

15.08%

5.86%

Sprint

www.sprint.com

0.03666

0.03979

8.54%

-3.14%

T-mobile

www.t-mobile.com

0.04012

0.03786

-5.63%

1.72%

FedEx

www.fedex.com

0.01516

0.03683

142.94%

0.14%

HP

www.hp.com

0.04004

0.03471

-13.31%

-4.67%

E*Trade

www.etrade.com

0.01062

0.03106

192.47%

3.46%

Go Daddy

www.godaddy.com

0.01257

0.01437

14.32%

74.63%

Coca-Cola

mycokerwards.com

0.01368

0.01253

-8.41%

28.54%

PNC

www.pnc.com

0.008954

0.0104

16.15%

-1.42%

Toyota

www.toyota.com

0.01088

0.009522

-12.48%

9.18%

General Motors

www.chevrolet.com

0.008816

0.007862

-10.82%

-6.44%

Honda Motor Co.

automobiles.honda.com

0.006188

0.005259

-15.01%

-8.97%

Prudential

www.prudential.com

0.002462

0.002892

17.47%

2.63%

Nationwide Insurance

www.nationwide.com

0.002599

0.002537

-2.39%

-14.84%

General Motors

www.gm.com

0.002248

0.002262

0.62%

16.06%

Garmin

www.garmin.com

0.002188

0.001767

-19.24%

-12.61%

Anheuser-Busch

www.budweiser.com

0.0007565

0.001738

129.74%

228.67%

Anheuser-Busch

www.bud.tv

0.0009953

0.001166

17.15%

NA

infoUSA (Salesgenie.com)

www.salesgenie.com

0.0009718

0.001067

9.80%

155.69%

King Pharmaceuticals

www.beatyourrisk.com

0.001177

0.001011

-14.10%

NA

Mars (Snickers)

www.snickers.com

0.0009665

0.0009411

-2.63%

1477.70%

Coca-Cola

www.coca-cola.com

0.0007537

0.0008967

18.97%

5.66%

Anheuser-Busch

www.budlight.com

0.0002871

0.0007914

175.65%

655.87%

Taco Bell

www.tacobell.com

0.001138

0.0007541

-33.73%

23.24%

Frito-Lay

www.frito-lay.com

0.000663

0.0006796

2.50%

10.47%

Phillips-Van Heusen/IZOD

www.pvh.com

0.0005256

0.0003799

-27.72%

27.61%

Revlon (Colorist)

www.revlon.com

0.0001941

0.0003618

86.40%

164.67%

Frito-Lay (Doritos)

www.doritos.com

0.0003106

0.0002319

-25.34%

3.48%

Boehringer Ingelheim (Flomax)

www.4flomax.com

0.00009007

0.0001422

57.88%

-11.90%

Snapple

www.snapple.com

0.0001297

0.0001253

-3.39%

18.77%

Diamond Emerald Nuts

www.emeraldnuts.com

0.0003068

0.00006594

-78.51%

-17.74%

PepsiCo (Sierra Mist)

www.sierramist.com

0.00006032

0.00004667

-22.63%

135.47%

Note - the data is based on the daily market share of visits, which is the percentage of traffic, among all US Internet users from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users

Source: Hitwise

 

Selected Super Bowl Ad Viewing Websites Ranked By Daily Market Share of US Internet Visits

Website

Domain

Percent Market Share Feb 4, 2007

Percent Market Share Feb 5, 2007

Percent Change Feb 5 vs. Feb 4

Percent Change Feb 5 vs. Jan 29

YouTube

www.youtube.com

0.6769

0.5741

-15.19%

11.84%

Google Video

video.google.com

0.1175

0.09752

-17.00%

5.23%

Yahoo! Video

video.yahoo.com

0.03567

0.05213

46.15%

65.91%

CBS Sportsline

www.sportsline.com

0.04973

0.04109

-17.37%

21.32%

iFilm

www.ifilm.com

0.008574

0.02275

165.34%

328.60%

AOL Sports

sports.aol.com

0.008533

0.01659

94.42%

157.69%

SuperBowl-Ads.com

www.superbowl-ads.com

0.002869

0.005072

76.79%

NA

Note - the data is based on the daily market share of visits, which is the percentage of traffic, among all US Internet users from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users

Source: Hitwise

 

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Since 1997, Hitwise has pioneered a unique, network-based approach to Internet measurement. Through relationships with ISPs around the world, Hitwise’s patented methodology captures the anonymous online usage, search, and conversion behavior of 25 million Internet users. This unprecedented volume of Internet usage data is seamlessly integrated into our easy to use, web-based service, designed to help marketers better plan, implement, and report on a range of online marketing programs.

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